A WRITER'S WITThere's absolutely nothing anyone can say about my mother or myself or my step-father that we haven't heard before. You'd have to be a Dickens or a Nabakov to come up with something really offensive.​Tom Parker BowlesBorn December 18, 1974

T. Parker Bowles

New Yorker Fiction 2017

***—Excellent** —Above Average * —Average ​

**December 18 & 25, 2017, Zadie Smith, “The Lazy River”: A British family vacations on the metaphorical Lazy River in Almería, Spain. Smith’s latest novel is Swing Time, which came out last year.